Call it sexist or sensationalist, but now science suggests it’s so: women find men with bigger penises more attractive.

(UPDATED) Reporting in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, researchers led by Brian Mautz, now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ottawa in Canada, studied how 105 young Australian women rated attractiveness in males.

The researchers, including those from Monash University and Australian National University, asked the women to view life-size video clips of computer-generated images of naked men who varied in height, body shape and flaccid penis size, but not in other qualities like facial attractiveness and hair. The women gave each image a rating from 1 to 7 on total sexual attractiveness, rather than assessing individual characteristics.

“We show that penis size actually is important on some level and, importantly, it interacts with other traits,” says Mautz.

The size of a model’s member, for example, had a greater influence on attractiveness if the model were tall, since proportion may have been an important factor in how appealing the men appeared to the women. “A change in penis size has a larger effect for taller men than it does for other heights,” Mautz says. “This result could be because penis size was smaller when assessed relative to the height of a taller man,” the authors note.

But height was equally important. Shorter men with larger penises were ranked as more attractive than shorter men who were not as well endowed, but they still remained on the low end of the scale for overall appeal, says Mautz. “You’d think that if penis size is super attractive, it might help shorter guys more. It does increase attractiveness for short men, but they still are under average in attractiveness scores.”

It turns out there may also be a threshold for the ideal size, which may also work against the vertically challenged; the study found that above about 3 in., additional enlargement in genitalia doesn’t make that much of a difference in attractiveness, regardless of a man’s height.

That’s not to say that there’s an upper limit on penis size, however; Mautz and his team did not find a maximum on desired size, but noted that “the most attractive penis size” appeared to fall outside the range used in the study, which was designed to capture 95% of the variability women would encounter. So although attractiveness beyond the 3 in. continued to increase in a linear fashion, it did so at a slower rate.

The results may not be as superficial as they seem. Based on evolutionary principles, it could be possible that women look to penis size to judge a man’s appropriateness as a mate; the size of a man’s member may indicate an ability to sire and produce healthy and robust children (something that obviously tended to play a greater role before developed societies began wearing clothes). And that, say the researchers, might help to explain why men have evolved relatively large penises in relation to those of other primates.

While size may matter, the findings don’t suggest that only size matters. In fact, body shape seemed to trump both height and genital endowment in determining attractiveness. Based on the women’s answers, the researcher calculated that height was as important as endowment in a male’s attractiveness, while wider shoulders and narrow hips was more important than both combined.

So if appealing to women is the goal, then it’s the gym membership that may make more sense than investing in genital enhancement devices.

Its a misleading article.Mautz who did this "study" hailed that mens physical fitness body shape trumps penis size.Women^s preference for a larger penis started to subside just under 3 inches flaccid !!!!---thats below average in the flaccid state. None of the women were interviewed or wrote why they chose what,Mautz & co. are just going by pre-concieved notions.How are women seriously gonna pick from a choice of faceleess,grey,characterless individuals ? If penis size counts by evolution then why is the clitoris & not the vagina the primary sex organ in women ?(masters & Johnson 1966), why is it that after the first inch & a quarter the vagina is insensitive ? so insensitive as one medical book put it ,that a surgeon can cut without anesthaesia in there. This is junk science & too many of u are influenced by porn

@LoveSmith I^m afraid your on crack.Only the first inch & a quarter is sensitive to the vagina.The rest is so insensitive as one medical book put it,that a surgeon can cut without anesthaesia.The clitoris & not the vagina is the primary sex organ

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FAIL Once again, here we have a stupid article which claims "yes, size matters" and then you read the article and you find out what it really says is not that size matters but they have allegedly proven that some group of people think that size matters. Big difference there.

"Size matters" refers to the idea that women will have a significantly more enjoyable sexual experience with a man who has a larger penis compared to a man with a smaller penis. That's what the words mean. Time and time again, these words have been proven to be false, unless you monkey around with the definitions. In this case, change the concept of an enjoyable sexual experience into mere sexual attraction, i.e. the anticipation that you might have an enjoyable sexual experience (hypothetically).

I saw an article six months ago which claimed they found evidence that women have more orgasms with men who have large penises. If you read the actual results of the study, all they really found was that women who had lots of orgasms tended to believe that size matters. It didn't prove anything about the women's actual sexual partners, just the women's beliefs. According to the study, if you find a woman who has lots of orgasms and ask her "Does size matter?", she's more likely to answer yes than a woman who has fewer orgasms. That's a long way from proving that the belief is justified.

in Afrika size does matter..for the men it's the penis & for the women it's their bums.how else would u expect 6+ inches to penetrate a petite size 4 woman?the women got to be big as well to accomodate their males lol

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Now that I think about it this is just not fair. The government should spread the wealth around so everybody can benefit. Anybody with a penis larger than 7 inches should be forced to undergo reduction surgery and the excess flesh can be given to the less endowed men. Sure the foreskin will not take and will just rot off the person who is not prepared for it but fair is fair. Doing this will not help anyone and will hurt a lot of people....but it will make us FEEL good because we will be taking from those 1% endowed people. If you missed the analogy: Taking money from people that earned it and giving it to people who didn't is just like grafting penis parts- you can hurt the well endowed but that is not going to help the smaller men. Until they are ready for the money it will be gone soon and be of little help to them.

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